تقطيع

Arabic

Verb

تَقْطِيعْ • (taqṭīʿ) (form I)

verbal noun of قَطَعَ‎ (qaṭaʿa)

Urdu

Etymology

From Arabic تَقْطِيع‎ (taqṭīʿ), verbal noun of قَطَعَ‎ (qaṭaʿa)

Noun

تقطيع • (taqtī') f (Hindi spelling तक़्ती)

cutting into parts, dissection;
scansion
‏تقطيع کرنا‎‎
perform scansion
caesura, in the context of poetry (especially Urdu poetry)

References

Platts, John Thompson. A dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi, and English London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1884.

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